Web Directory > NZ > History > Genealogy
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- AFFHO
Website of the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations. Includes: indexes, guides, publications, projects, events, general information and links.
- Auckland City Libraries. Family history = Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero
Links and guides to the family history and genealogy resources of Auckland City Libraries.
- AUSNZ passenger lists : helping family historians find the vessel that brought their ancestors to Australasia
Helps family historians locate passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia and New Zealand.
- Bibliography of New Zealand family histories
A listing of all separately published New Zealand family histories. Accessed through the University of Waikato Library online database page.
- Birth, death & marriage historical records
BDM provides access to government births, deaths and marriages records.
- Births, deaths and marriages = Whānautanga, matenga, mārenatanga
Provices access to registered birth, death and marriage information, and related services. Includes information on marriage, civil unions, name changes and family history.
- Carter's family history via New Zealand
Family history website, also available in German. Chiefly shows links to family history in Onehunga and some to the Copley family in England. Includes genealogies, passenger lists, etc.
- Catholic Cemetery St Bathans, Central Otago, New Zealand
Contains a surnames list of those buried there, cemetery plan showing the locations of the burial plots, photographs of the headstones, inscriptions from headstones and genealogy.
- Cemeteries database
An ongoing community project that enables local burial records to be searched. People can find out where their friends and family are buried.
- Cemeteries in the South Waikato
Information about cemeteries in the South Waikato District. Includes an online cemetery search tool that can be used to locate burial plots and related information.
- Cemeteries
A guide for genealogical research. Cemetery and crematorium records can be selected online from: Bolton St cemetery, Karori cemetery, Makara cemetery.
- Chinese in New Zealand
Articles and information collected by Steven Young about the Chinese community in New Zealand, particularly those who have been here several generations. Provides articles by a variety of authors and covers all aspects of political, cultural and social life; includes family histories and information about the poll tax reconcilliation process.
- Clan Cameron Association of New Zealand
The site includes historical information about the clan in New Zealand, lists of births and deaths, and "The journal of Jessie Campbell on board the "Blenheim" bound for New Zealand in 1840". Full-text newsletters are also available.
- Council services, cemetery
Information about the Akatarawa Cemetery, including rules, fees and charges for burials, and a database of burial records.
- CousinConnect.com
The New Zealand section of a website designed for posting genealogy queries.
- ExploreGenealogy
UK based website presenting articles and information on a range of family history resources including resources specific to New Zealand and Australia.
- First four ships
Site containing information on Canterbury colonist families, their arrival in New Zealand and their histories.
- Friends of the Bolton Street Memorial Park
Includes a searchable burials list, maps and tours of the site, history.
- Genealogical Computing Group (GCG) : special interest group of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc. (NZSG)
Fosters the use of computers as a tool for genealogical research. Contact details for local groups.
- Genealogy index
An index of the Wellington, New Zealand newspaper notices for births, deaths, marriages, anniversaries, and in memoriam published daily since 1st January 2000, for the purposes of genealogy and family research.
- GENEoNZ : NZ & Māori genealogy
Extensive list of links and information. Includes ships' passenger lists.
- Helen's page of New Zealand history
The site focuses on Wellington and mid to lower North Island genealogical resources such as passenger lists, pioneers, shipwrecks, registers, etc.
- Heritage help
Web site of a Wellington, N.Z. genealogist. Includes an annotated list of cemeteries in greater Wellington; information about the suburb of Hataitai and family history information for the Moore, Doyle and McKirdy families.
- Interment.net cemetery transcription library : New Zealand cemetery records
Links to cemetery record transcriptions, organised by province.
- International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies- Cemetery Project : New Zealand
Site includes brief history of Jews in New Zealand with information on location of cemeteries, links to Jewish cemeteries other countries.
- Iwidex
Index to published and unpublished information sources on tribal history, tikanga-a-iwi, and whakapapa held in the Heritage and Research Collections of Auckland City Libraries.
- Māori resources
Introduction to tracing your whakapapa, significant tribal resources held in Manukau Libraries, a map showing iwi and waka, and links to a selection of websites with Maori content. Available in Māori and English.
- Māori whakapapa research
Lists links to a variety of sources of information and provides whakapapa for some notable Māori.
- New Zealand bound
Dedicated to identifying genealogical resources to assist in locating which New Zealand bound ship an immigrant ancestor was aboard. Provides passenger lists and a list of the main ports.
- New Zealand family history@ Christchurch City Libraries
European New Zealand family history resources held by the libraries or that can be accessed through them. The information to be found in these resources and when you need to look elsewhere. The main focus is Christchurch and Canterbury information, from the 19th and early 20th century.
- New Zealand genealogy links
Extensive lists of links, most of them to surname searchable records. Includes Māori whakapapa.
- New Zealand historical data / created and compiled by Dawn Chambers
A personal web site offering a range of historical data - lists of earthquakes and other natural phenomena, fires, weather summaries, missing persons, coastal ship wrecks, and a page is designed to assist researchers who are using the NZ Society of Genealogists CD-ROM.
- New Zealand obituaries
Provides online access to a range of services to support grieving relatives and friends of the deceased including a searchable archive of death notices.
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists : family history : preserving our past for the future
NZSG aims to assist users with their family history and genealogical research. Site includes resources, events, online shop, general information, library catalogue and members area.
- New Zealand yesteryears
Provides information of interest to genealogists. Includes shipping information, diaries and lists from 1800-1900; resources and archives for genealogists arranged by region and a surnames interest list.
- New ZealandGenWeb
The New ZealandGenWeb Project acts as the host site for the New ZealandGenWeb regional projects and is one of the participating sites of the WorldGenWeb Project. The regional projects on the web site provide extensive links to genealogical resources. A separate section provides resources and information relevant to general New Zealand research and is targeted at those less familiar with resources available online.
- NZ Ireland Connection
This site has been established to highlight the historical and contemporary connections between New Zealand and Ireland. It includes a brief history of Irish emigration; a bibliography; details of New Zealand connections in Ireland; past and contemporary Irish connections in New Zealand; a list of Irish migrants; and links to relevant sites.
- Otago nominal index to 1876
An index to names in documents held by the Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. A joint project between the Hocken Library and the Dunedin Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists
- Our stuff! : Denise and Peter's homepage
A collection of NZ history resources useful to genealogists. Includes lists such as early electoral rolls.
- Pākehā(European)/Māori transliterations
A list of given and surnames in English and Māori transliterated and has a link to the Māori Interest Group of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists.
- Passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, March 1848 - January 1851 : an expanded and corrected version of Dr Hocken's lists
John MacGibbon has taken the passenger lists of ships arriving in Port Chalmers (1848-1851), compiled by Dr Hocken, and created a database of names accessible by ship and date. There are links to sites of passenger lists, and other genealogical interests.
- Passenger ships arriving in Australasian ports : New Zealand shipping
An index of passenger ships arriving in New Zealand between 1839 and 1905. The lists are derived from Sir Henry Brett's "White Wings" Auckland : Brett Printing Co., 1924-1928.
- Pearl's pad
Genealogy. Some transcriptions, especially for the Auckland, Bay of Islands and Coromandel areas.
- Pioneers in New Zealand and the South Pacific
A collection of illustrated historical articles and stories by Anthony G. Flude about the early times in New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands with an emphasis on New Zealand shipping / A short history of New Zealand shipping.
- Presbyterian Church Archives of Aotearoa New Zealand
The archives bring together information from many sources, particularly in relation to Otago and Southland. They include genealogical material and a database of Presbyterian marriages as well as a large collection of photographs, cine film, slides, audio/video tapes & plans.
- Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium
Provides information on the facilities, burial plots and gardens. Includes online search facilities for burial and cremation details.
- Research your family history or whakapapa
List of major reference sources held in the family history collection of the National Library of New Zealand, and a list of links to major overseas genealogy sources.
- Shadows of time : genealogical services & information
Databases of genealogical information.
- Wellington City Libraries. Māori Collection and Resources
Includes full text material (e.g. Legends of Te Whanganui-a-Tara), indexes and iwi (hapu) history reading lists.